The Crimson Fairy Book, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22, sentence 46

He was thinking to himself, as he spread them out carefully, how lucky it was that the sun was so bright and that there was no wind, when suddenly a breeze sprang up, and in a moment the feathers were dancing high in the air.

Who acts: man, head, breeze, feathers · What happens: think, spread out, be, spring up, dance · To what, where: man, feathers, wind

This is a sentence of «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Crimson Fairy Book, part 22. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, head, breeze, feathers), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 thinking	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	aux
3	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 himself	case
5	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	3 thinking	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 spread	punct
7	as	as	SCONJ	_	9 spread	mark
8	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	nsubj
9	spread	spread	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 thinking	conj
10	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 spread	obj
11	out	out	ADP	_	9 spread	compound:prt
12	carefully	carefully	ADV	_	9 spread	advmod
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 lucky	punct
14	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	15 lucky	advmod
15	lucky	lucky	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 spread	parataxis
16	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 bright	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bright	cop
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 bright	mark
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 sun	det
20	sun	sun	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bright	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bright	cop
22	so	so	ADV	_	23 bright	advmod
23	bright	bright	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 lucky	parataxis
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 wind	cc
25	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 was	mark
26	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	27 was	expl
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 wind	cop
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 wind	det
29	wind	wind	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 bright	conj
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 sprang	punct
31	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	35 sprang	advmod
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	_	35 sprang	advmod
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 breeze	det
34	breeze	breeze	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 sprang	nsubj
35	sprang	spring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 bright	conj
36	up	up	ADP	_	35 sprang	compound:prt
37	,	,	PUNCT	_	45 dancing	punct
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	45 dancing	cc
39	in	in	ADP	_	41 moment	case
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	41 moment	det
41	moment	moment	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 dancing	obl
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 feathers	det
43	feathers	feather	NOUN	Number=Plur	45 dancing	nsubj
44	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	45 dancing	aux
45	dancing	dance	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	35 sprang	advcl
46	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 dancing	xcomp
47	in	in	ADP	_	49 air	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 air	det
49	air	air	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 high	obl
50	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 thinking	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	past · progressive	man		man			vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	spread out	past	man	feathers = feather			carefully property	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location they=Theme
3	is	past	head				bright property	tree rules
4	is a	past	head not said here	no wind				tree rules
5	spring up	past	a breeze				suddenly property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	dance	past · progressive	the feathers			moment	high property	vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Crimson Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 2435 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg2435/22/46/